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A GoFundMe campaign for the affected team, the Humboldt Broncos, has raised almost $5.8 million. That's enough to rank it among the five most successful campaigns ever on the platform.

What happened to a contestant in a hot-pepper-eating contest may give spicy food aficionados one more reason to "fear the reaper," according to a recent case report.

The Louisiana Senate has approved a provision that would allow students to carry bulletproof backpacks on school grounds.

Once again, strawberries top the list of the 12 "dirtiest" fruits and vegetables, according to the Environmental Working Group.

Essure, the only non-surgical permanent form of birth control for women, has been fraught with complaints. A new order by the FDA may kill it altogether.

If we could meet our human ancestors from hundreds of thousands of years ago and have a conversation with them, we might think they were angry and aggressive -- just by looking at their eyebrows.

For many children, it may be their favorite part of the school day: lunchtime.

The first fossil of an ancient human found in the Arabian Peninsula could disrupt the widely accepted theory of how modern humans migrated out of Africa.

Two years ago, Brendan Tyne pleaded with the Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug that he was hopeful could finally bring his mother some peace.

A sharp spike in vaping and the use of e-cigarettes by students has grabbed the attention of the US Food and Drug Administration.

There are plenty of ways moms use extra breast milk. They pump it, dump it, save it, bake with it or even drink it (though health experts definitely caution against this). Amanda Lanners, a South Dakota mom of four, decided to donate it instead.

A warning about life-threatening bleeding linked to use of synthetic cannabinoids -- commonly known as fake weed or spice -- was issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday after two deaths and dozens of patients appearing in ERs with serious unexplained bleeding.

The mystery of a 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian mummy's head has finally been solved, after the FBI successfully extracted DNA from its tooth.

A body recovered this week from a river in Atlanta has been identified as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist who vanished in February, Atlanta Police Department spokesman Carlos Campos said Thursday.

In the blink of an eye, Joseph Sakran's life was forever altered.

Like most people, I'm no stranger to jealousy -- I know, every time it hits, that I'm being irrational, but still, I've spent days brooding over little things like the way a friend of mine looked at my partner.

In 2014, a 23-year-old woman with cerebral palsy was allegedly gang-raped and thrown from the rooftop in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.

The US Surgeon General issued an advisory Thursday recommending more Americans carry the opioid overdose reversing drug, naloxone.

2010 CNN Hero Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow's nonprofit, Mary's Meals, has given more than one billion free, nutritious meals to schoolchildren around the world. Anderson Cooper reports.

A sterilization breach at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver may have put patients at risk for infection of HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C, according to a release from the Colorado state health department.